Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Dr. Amanda Burke:

I cannot give the Deputy the exact number today but it is very little and maybe none today. My colleague here has just informed me that we have had no admissions to adult units yet in 2022. Even in previous years, our admission numbers need to be contextualised by the fact that most of the young people who were admitted to adult units were there for very short periods because of geography. For example, if somebody gets sick in the middle of the night, they might be admitted to Letterkenny, while they are waiting for a bed in the unit at Galway but at the moment we are actively managing the waiting lists.